I expect that Keith will be all over this, like a dog with a bone. A few years back I had asked him if there were any wooden structures in Halifax that were worth saving and he had said yes some of the big old houses on Young Ave.
I was looking up one of the old houses that was torn down to build five new houses, the The Heritage Trust Griffin has an article on that house starting on page ten,
http://www.htns.ca/pdf_Griffin/G0712-34.pdf
The article also has a couple of early maps of Halifax. We all know about the Road to Point Pleasant; I had never of Street to Gorhams Point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G...1750_inset.jpg
For the Young Street houses, it doesn't matter what they do, a developer can still tear down the buildings given current Heritage guidelines; unless there are new laws to protect Heritage, it will continue.